Sadly, Roni's Jeeves was just too sick. I feel for them. He was a nice cat. He was the one who sat in my lap when we were babysitting. He was the one that Alex was learning "gently!" with. A sweet little cat.

We went downtown to the Government Technology Expo. There were a lot of nice cache-goodies, though we missed out on the Google blinkie pins. We signed up for a lot of drawings, though I imagine when they see the dinosaur on my "business card" they won't be eager to give me anything. We can but try.

Afterwards we went to the labyrinth cache we'd missed out on before. This time we saw a parking garage, went to the top, looked in the plants up there right where the coordinates led us, but no luck at all.

Argh. Then in the afternoon, I'd neglected to have lunch, but we went out to Sacramento Bar to see if we could find a couple of new ones there. We tried out the new gaiters. They worked pretty well, though seeds did find all the weak places. We thought we had the direct route and ended up scrambling up, down, in, out, over rocks and through grass. It was hot, I was TIRED, but eventually we made our way to the cache. (the track looks like a narrow W till we got there.) OK, I traded travel bugs and we took the First to Find prize, which was coordinates leading to a mystery puzzle. (I love these things, though I'm not very good.) I left a mystery and was really good about not taking another.

We then thought we would look for the puzzle cache... ha. We were within .1 mile, but couldn't find a way to get there, so we thought maybe it would work better going back to the park. No, not exactly, but we found the prize, anyway, which took another half hour. I was exhausted. However, when a woman found a huge rattlesnake on the bike trail, I was interested enough to get out of the car to take a look. Rich threw rocks close to it to encourage it off the trail (which disappointed a guy who'd run off for his camera.)

So, one cache, a first to find. Oh, well. We'll go look for the other one with Pagan on Friday.

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Heh:

Running against Dick Cheney wasn't going too well for John Kerry, so now he's reduced to running against Donald Rumsfeld. I have a funny feeling that this tactic isn't going to work too well. By this time next month, he'll be reduced to running against the White House copy boy. Who's his vice president going to attack, Jenna Bush?

Double standard: "Publishing images that might inflame Arabs against Americans is responsible journalism. So is not publishing images that might inflame Americans against Arabs."

Howard Kurtz says, "they've succeeded in making the American abuses--for which the president has apologized, and which is being investigated, and courts-martial convened--small by comparison."

OK, but we say we'll punish them... that's what we said about Fallujah, yet it didn't happen. We need to mean it.

Cox and Forkum May 11. Explains it all.

"We were winning international sympathy because of what happened at Abu Ghraib, but they come and waste it all," Mr Sahar said of the militants responsible. -- The Guardian.

I lay Berg's death at the feet of CBS. Glenn has further ideas.

Fact-Checking the Raddled Old Drunk. He's an oxygen thief.

Leiberman, on the other hand, isn't so bad.

RatherBiased.com.

The Bush administration has a sad sad mistaken prioritization. STUPID!!!

James Taranto analyzes the Bush v. anti-Bush vote (not Bush v. Kerry).

Lt. Smash, Losing our Perspective. Mail from Iraq.

A followup from Belmont Club. It's beginning already.

So, let's end on a lighter note. Giggle.